In a world of matter, how can we express what matters? This book examines a constellation of post-WWII authors who pose this question through both art and argument. Seeking to dramatize our highest words, these postwar sages raise essential questions about meaning, language, science, and modernity.
In a world of matter, how can we express what matters? This book examines a constellation of post-WWII authors who pose this question through both art and argument. Seeking to dramatize our highest words, these postwar sages raise essential questions about meaning, language, science, and modernity.
Robert Chodat is an Associate Professor of English at Boston University, where he specializes in post-WWII American fiction and the relationship between literature and philosophy. He is the author of Worldly Acts and Sentient Things: The Persistence of Agency from Stein to DeLillo (2008).
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part One: Words and Flesh Chapter 1: Minds, Machines, and Giving a Damn Chapter 2: That Horeb, That Kansas Part Two: We Solemnly Publish and Declare Chapter 3: Sociology to the Scientists Chapter 4: Puzzles, Pawnshops, and Improvisation Chapter 5: The Advanced US Citizenship of David Foster Wallace Afterward Bibliography
Introduction Part One: Words and Flesh Chapter 1: Minds, Machines, and Giving a Damn Chapter 2: That Horeb, That Kansas Part Two: We Solemnly Publish and Declare Chapter 3: Sociology to the Scientists Chapter 4: Puzzles, Pawnshops, and Improvisation Chapter 5: The Advanced US Citizenship of David Foster Wallace Afterward Bibliography
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